Painting Quotes

I hate painting.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.

If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting.

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

I still take photographs for my own use, personal studies. I do not feel that I can fully express my views through the medium and this is why I have moved towards painting.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

All my album artwork is body painting.

Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.